Clare Morrall

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Clare Morrall (born 1952) is an English novelist. Born in Exeter, she has lived mainly in Birmingham, where she worked for many years as a music teacher. She achieved sudden success with her first published novel, Astonishing splashes of colour, which reached the shortlist for the 2003 Booker Prize. Her second novel, Natural flights of the human mind, was published in 2006. Her work has been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, French, Polish, Croatian, Russian, Dutch and Greek. Both books have been published in Canada and US.